Parkop says less talk, more action to mitigate impact of climate change

DECISIVE action to mitigate the impact of climate change is needed now more than ever, say National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop. Parkop said this continued to be the country’s biggest challenge despite Papua New Guinea signing conventions and protocols as part of the global community, including the Paris Agreement. “We have announced so many policies and declarations but our effort to date does not match our words and, more particularly, correspond to the impending and obvious calamity,” he said. “We continue to plunder and destroy our forest at alarming rate without restoration; mine mountains and valleys and dump waste into the water system and the ocean; allow massive fishing in our ocean and reefs without care about the consequences; and, run and maintain an economy that has no regard for our health, culture, tradition, seas and ocean, biodiversity and the sustainability of life on Earth.”